I hate computers.
by Karrde on Jan.19, 2006, under Rant
Replacing the computer for this server should have been an easy process. I had a new computer ready to go, just needed to swap a couple of aprts from the old to the new. Not a big deal, do it all the time.
Of course this computer happend to be in a building out of the way for both myself and the people who let me put it there. And because I’m not directly authorised, must be escorted into the server room. So timeing issues to get out there.
Then I get there, start swaping out the parts, Hard Drives, Network card, video card…. why won’t the video card go in??? You see at some point in time computer manufactures decided that AGP video cards ran at the “wrong” voltage, so they switched them from 5V to 3.3V or is it the other way around. So you call things the same, they work the same, but they just slightly incompatable. My luck struck again.
So I trek off to CompUSA to pick up a part, would you believe that the cheapest vido card they had was $30. You’d think that workign with computers every day I’d be used to this….
